Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows
The luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can function as an electricity‐generating window whose performance is hindered by an inherent trade‐off between power conversion efficiency and visible light transmission. To optimize this trade‐off, a numerical algorithm is used to find the power conversion...
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| description | The luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can function as an electricity‐generating window whose performance is hindered by an inherent trade‐off between power conversion efficiency and visible light transmission. To optimize this trade‐off, a numerical algorithm is used to find the power conversion efficiency of 92 luminophores, ensuring an average visible transmission >55% and a color rendering index >70. Furthermore, double‐ and triple‐stacked LSC configurations and single LSCs with two‐ or three‐embedded luminophores are optimized. All tested LSC configurations are found to be limited to a power conversion efficiency of around 1% for window‐appropriate transparencies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c2ca5af39b664b2190cde6b8f7875f6a2025-01-06T02:15:53ZengWiley-VCHAdvanced Photonics Research2699-92932025-01-0161n/an/a10.1002/adpr.202400068Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar WindowsThomas A. de Bruin0Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark1Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development Utrecht University Princetonlaan 8a 3584 CB Utrecht NetherlandsCopernicus Institute of Sustainable Development Utrecht University Princetonlaan 8a 3584 CB Utrecht NetherlandsThe luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) can function as an electricity‐generating window whose performance is hindered by an inherent trade‐off between power conversion efficiency and visible light transmission. To optimize this trade‐off, a numerical algorithm is used to find the power conversion efficiency of 92 luminophores, ensuring an average visible transmission >55% and a color rendering index >70. Furthermore, double‐ and triple‐stacked LSC configurations and single LSCs with two‐ or three‐embedded luminophores are optimized. All tested LSC configurations are found to be limited to a power conversion efficiency of around 1% for window‐appropriate transparencies.https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202400068luminescent solar concentratorsnumerical optimizationsolar windowstransparent photovoltaics |
| spellingShingle | Thomas A. de Bruin Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows Advanced Photonics Research luminescent solar concentrators numerical optimization solar windows transparent photovoltaics |
| title | Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows |
| title_full | Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows |
| title_fullStr | Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows |
| title_short | Shining Lights on Limits: Optimizing Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Solar Windows |
| title_sort | shining lights on limits optimizing luminescent solar concentrators for solar windows |
| topic | luminescent solar concentrators numerical optimization solar windows transparent photovoltaics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202400068 |
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